UP003 - a proposal to establish a UNI grants program is the first @UniswapProtocol governance proposal to meet quorum and pass!
And it wasn't even close, exceeding the approval threshold by more than 20M votes:
✅ YES - 60,088,813 (99.99%)
❌ NO - 9,300 (0.01%)
Thrilled that this is the first proposal to pass.
A resounding message from the Uniswap community in favor of funding developers and contributors.
Which reminds me - everyone complaining about slow governance is either concern trolling or missing the point.
On-chain governance is not a panacea. It opens up new risks and trust assumptions that do not exist in immutable, automated systems.
This is why Uniswap is highly automated and governance-minimized.
It's no coincidence the biggest project on Ethereum follows this ethos.
On-chain governance should be used to give a community control of the direction and development of a project, and to fill gaps that market forces, automation, and immutability cannot.
Decentralized financial protocols that achieve the right balance will be unstoppable 🚀
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Result 1:
"If the volatility of an asset is high enough relative to its average rate of return, LPs on Uniswap will do better than HODLers over time, even when the only incoming trades are arbs."
TLDR: LPing can be good without "retail" volume and arb is not bad for LPs
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Result 2:
In a zero latency, zero network fee, arbitrage-only (no "retail") world, the profit-optimizing LP fee approaches (but never touches) 0.
This was one of the more shocking results
TLDR: Lower fees = more profitable arb trades = more total fee revenue
Second, you can’t directly compare manipulation resistance of entirely on-chain oracles that pulls from dex with something like chainlink that reports off-chain data
The attack surfaces and trust assumptions are very different
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Uniswap TWAPs report 100% accurate average of Uniswap price (at start of block) across arbitrary time periods with perfect reliability and accuracy.
The cost of manipulating is whatever is lost to arbitrage by moving the average market price across this period
Can't tell who is pretending and who legitimately doesn't understand that the $1B TVL deposited in an incredibly high risk investment on a single days notice is mostly massive whales
Anyone talking about community vs VC here is either delusional or intentionally misleading.
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This is not YFI. Andre built something new and real, that has value.
Sushi is one days effort by any competent dev at most.
It's just whales playing whale games trying to cash in on a hype cycle and the value created by Uniswap.
Not surprised to see @iamDCinvestor talking about this, he's one of seemingly few people on crypto twitter who seems to understand the games whales play when the stakes are raised (and tries to explain them).